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Restoring tropical forests from the bottom up
In a Perspective piece, Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl address what she calls the "often striking disconnect" between groups that set bold tropical reforestation targets and those that implement projects and guide restoration science.
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Think states alone can't handle sea level rise? Watch California
Geologist Gary Griggs is quoted in an article in Wired about the climate change committee advising Gov. Jerry Brown, which Griggs is leading.
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Hack UCSC 2017: Traffic solution, Chef win top awards
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about the winners of the Hack UCSC 2017 hackathon, featuring the first place team of UCSC students Thooba Samimi, Aviv Elor, Maria Hovanessian, Sierra Catelani and Michael Powell, who developed an Efficient Traffic Management System.
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Motivated Reasoning: A Philosopher On Confirmation Bias
Philosophy professor Jonathan Ellis was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered program about the impact of confirmation bias (reasoning with an agenda) and "alternative facts" on our daily lives.
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Our history shows there’s a dark side to ‘Buy American’
The Washington Post featured an op-ed by history professor Dana Frank about President Trump's promise in his inaugural address "to buy and hire American," noting that this initiative follows a long history of similar campaigns steeped in racism, especially against Asians and Asian Americans. Fortune magazine also quoted Frank about this issue, and cited her…
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California artist Russell Crotty aims for the stars in a new exhibition at SJICA, created in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz and the Lick Observatory.
Art Ltd magazine featured a cover story on Look Back in Time: Russell Crotty and Lick Observatory, the first traveling exhibition of the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS), currently running at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The art journal Squarecylinder also featured an extensive review of the…
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Donors commit $1M to back UCSC Jewish studies
The Santa Cruz Sentinel quoted UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal in an artiicle announcing that over 150 donors have committed nearly $1 million to establish the new Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies.
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How to Crochet a Coral Reef–and Why
Scientific American ran a story about UCSC's Institutute for the Arts and Sciences' participation in the Crochet Coral Reef project through workshops and an exhibition. A story was also featured in onegreenplanet.org.
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Otter populations reach a new high, but great white sharks keep their numbers at bay
Biologist Dan Costa was quoted in an article about sea otter populations in the San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Storms Preview Sea-Rise Damage to California Roads, Cities
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in an Associated Press story about the impacts of sea level rise in California, which ran in media outlets throughout the country and around the world, including ABC News, KRON Bay Area News, CBS News, NBC News, MSN, PhysOrg, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Marin Independent Journal, San Mateo Daily Journal, and…